Sentences with phrase «crop on agricultural land»

And despite five years of coverage that local press gave to landowner associations in their fight against provincial land - use policies, farmers are incensed to learn that there is such a thing as a Provincial Land Use Policy, and that solar panels qualify as a legal crop on agricultural land.

Not exact matches

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

While only covering 2.5 % of the world's agricultural land, 25 % of all insecticides and 18 % of all pesticides used worldwide are used on cotton crops.

However unlike the conventional rubber, it could be harvested more cost - effectively, better cultivated and grown in Germany as a sustainable raw material — even on land areas not previously suited for agricultural crops.

As BECCS is usually conceived, bioenergy crops would be grown on unused agricultural land.

That extreme approach showed that 1.5 million crop acres would need to be converted into grassland to meet the targets, if no additional BMPs were employed on agricultural lands.

This study shows that although miscanthus yield was slightly lower on marginal, low - quality land, a farmer would have an economic incentive to grow miscanthus on the lower quality land first rather than diverting their most productive cropland from growing corn,» said University of Illinois agricultural economist Madhu Khanna who co-authored the study along with a team of economists and environmental and crop scientists from the Energy Biosciences Institute at U of I.

High - demand for a crop throughout the year puts stress on conventional farmers to use more land and thus reconstruct more of its natural vegetation for agricultural use.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

LEGO has started purchasing sugarcane from Brazil — but Brooks said the company ensured it's being grown on agricultural land, «so we're not chopping down rainforest to grow the crop.»

Moderate climate change in the coming decades is projected to increase overall yields by 5 - 20 % on agricultural lands that rely of rainfall, although major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range.

In some areas and on some land types, trees may be more productive than agricultural crops and may not have as many negative environmental effects.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

Lower crop prices, floods and a ruthless winter in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario failed to significantly impact the value of agricultural land, though sellers in the areas hardest hit by the harsh winter reported seeing fewer transactions and an increase in the number of days on the market, the report says.